Scroll restoration.
I have now retired from this aspect of scrolls and no longer do this
work.

We used to restore many old scrolls where the painting deserves new mounts.
Some scrolls have not had the best life in their existence and creating
new silk top and
bottom mounts and inner frame mounts can happily bring these old
paintings back to life. .

Fusuma (襖) are vertical rectangular
panels which can slide from side to side to redefine spaces
within a room, or act as doors. They typically measure about
90 centimetres (3.0 ft) wide by 180 centimetres (5.9 ft) tall,
the same size as a tatami mat, and are two or three centimetres
thick. . They consist of a lattice-like wooden under structure
covered in cardboard and a layer of paper or cloth on both
sides. They typically have a black lacquer border and a round
finger catch. Both fusuma and shoji (sheer,
translucent paper room dividers) run on wooden rails at the top
and bottom. The upper rail is called a kamoi(鴨居?),
literally "duck's place", and the lower is called a shikii(敷居?).
Traditionally these were waxed, but nowadays they usually have a
vinyl lubricating strip to ease movement of the fusuma
and shōji.The panels slide along
grooves at the top and bottom of the door frame and function as
doors and room dividers.
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The term *shouji-e
障子絵 was popular during the Heian period and still used
interchangeably with fusuma-e, but the latter term is
more commonly heard today. In addition, the term shouji-e
in the strict sense includes paintings on free-standing screens,
tsuitate 衝立, as well as fusuma-e. The earliest
reference to paintings on sliding doors in Japan comes in the 8c
in the Shousouin 正倉院 records from 762 . Although no paintings
survive from the Heian period, many literary and pictorial
references suggest that paintings on sliding doors were popular
interior decorations in the shinden style, *shinden-zukuri
寝殿造, architecture employed for the palaces and residences of
courtiers. Most extant fusuma paintings date from 15c on,
and were done in ink painting, *suibokuga 水墨画, painting
with bright colors against gold background, *kinpekiga
金碧画, and *yamato-e やまと絵. Fusuma-e were sometimes taken
off their sliding door frames (in which case they are called
mekuri めくり) and re-mounted onto folding screens, *byoubu
屏風, or large hanging scrolls,*kakejiku 掛軸, for
preservation.
This section is cited to
http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/f/fusumae.htm

Landscape with cedars and birch, spruce and Pine.
Created by the famous landscape -Sansui Ga- painter Nakanishi Koseki
(1807-1884)

Signed artist
name "Koseki" and sealed. Nakanishi Koseki (1807-1884), scholar
artist, active in Kyoto from late Edo to early Meiji era.
He was from Fukuoka-ken. He is the painter who played an active
part in Meiji Era.

Biography
Kôseki, Nakanishi 耕石 中西

Koseki although born in Osaka he was brought up in
Fukuoka Prefecture (福岡県,Fukuoka-ken) is a prefecture
of Japan located on Kyūshū Island.
He studied under the
great artist Oda Kaisen (1785-1862) a Nanga painter,in Kyoto. It
was here that he established himself
as a top rated artist. He also studied the Southern Chinese
style. This resulted in a style which is typical for the Meiji nanga
style. He moved back to Osaka when he was 26, and lived there for the
rest of his life. He was very popular in the Kansai area. During the late Edo and early Meiji
period he was considered one of the best landscape artists in
Japan, alongside Taizan (Hine Taizan, 1813-1870). His works are
in a number of private collections and museums, including the
Ashmolean.